CTAN has a new package: thumby
Date: January 15, 2010 8:21:24 AM CET
This should within a day be at your local mirror.
Thanks again,
Jim Hef{}feron
Saint Michael's College
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: Thumby
Version number: 0.1
Author's name: Sergey Goldgaber
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/thumby
Summary description: Create thumb indexes for your document.
License type: gpl
Announcement text:
Using this package you can generate thumb indexes for your document. Thumby features printing thumb indexes on one- or two-sided pages, along with background- and foreground-color selection and full LaTeX styling of the chapter numbers in the thumb indexes. The height of each thumb index is automatically chosen based on the number of chapters in your document, while the width is chosen by the user.
This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/thumby . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/thumby (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .
Using this package you can generate thumb indexes for your document. Thumby features printing thumb indexes on one- or two-sided pages, along with background- and foreground-color selection and full LaTeX styling of the chapter numbers in the thumb indexes. The height of each thumb index is automatically chosen based on the number of chapters in your document, while the width is chosen by the user.
This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/thumby . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/thumby (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .
thumby – Create thumb indexes for printed books
The package can generate thumb indexes for your document. It features printing thumb indexes on one- or two-sided pages, along with background- and foreground-color selection and full LaTeX styling of the chapter numbers in the thumb indexes. The height of each thumb index is automatically chosen based on the number of chapters in your document, while the width is chosen by the user.
The package is designed to work with the memoir class, and also requires PerlTeX and tikz/
| Package | thumby |
| Version | 0.1 |
| Copyright | 2010 Sergey Goldgaber |
| Maintainer | Sergey Goldgaber |